Re: [9fans] Additional compilers under 9vx.OSX

2011-04-08 Thread roger peppe
i'm not keen on disks within disks because you either have to waste lots of space or risk running out of it. On 7 April 2011 16:45, Paul Lalonde paul.a.lalo...@gmail.com wrote: Fortunately you can build a case-insensitive file system on a mac, within a file.  Disk Utility lets you make a

Re: [9fans] Additional compilers under 9vx.OSX

2011-04-08 Thread erik quanstrom
On Fri Apr 8 05:10:49 EDT 2011, rogpe...@gmail.com wrote: i'm not keen on disks within disks because you either have to waste lots of space or risk running out of it. true, but ... is disk space your most constrained resource? is a free byte on disk wasted or not? i bought the smallest

[9fans] GSoC student applications close in 4 hours (19:00 UTC)

2011-04-08 Thread Anthony Sorace
Folks: Student applications close in just under 4 hours, at 19:00 UTC[0]. That's still plenty of time to get a good proposal in, and we could still use more. If you're on the fence or have been putting it off, consider this your kick to get moving. To apply, go to Plan 9's home page in

[9fans] 9vx: one less version to care about

2011-04-08 Thread yy
My 9vx tree and ron's one are exactly the same now. Ron has write access to my repo now, which will be used for development from now on, while the one at bitbucket.org/rminnich/vx32 will be more stable and the only one most users will have to worry about. I hope this helps to avoid some of the

Re: [9fans] 9vx: one less version to care about

2011-04-08 Thread Mathieu Lonjaret
brilliant. thanks to both for that. ---BeginMessage--- My 9vx tree and ron's one are exactly the same now. Ron has write access to my repo now, which will be used for development from now on, while the one at bitbucket.org/rminnich/vx32 will be more stable and the only one most users will have to

[9fans] Plan 9 port of the Go toolchain

2011-04-08 Thread Lucio De Re
.../src/cmd/8a/asm.c, around line #900: /* This null SHdr must appear before all others */ sh = newElfShdr(elfstr[ElfStrEmpty]); My guess is that this needs to be followed by an instruction to write out the header, which in fact does not take place. I will not be

[9fans] I can't boot Plan 9 after install it with 9atom (the system is rebooted)

2011-04-08 Thread pmarin
I have a problem after installing 9atom in an old HP Optiplex GX110 (i810e/PIII) When I start the machine the screen only show PBS2...Plan 9 from Bell Labs and after a few second the machine is rebooted. Can someone tell me what I have to do now? Some info ( a few Spanglish sorry): fdisk -l